Follow the directions below:
Assume that you have the following systems:
System A: System that you will manually configure with the desired settings and item names.
System B: First system you want the configuration to be copied to.
System C: 2nd systems you want the configuration to be copied to.
System n: Last (or nth) system of the identical systems you want the configuration to be copied to.
Hint: You may want to temporarily label each system with its corresponding letter at this point, and label with the IP address after completing step 2.
Make sure that the hardware systems are identical (i.e. FP-2000 is not that same as FP-2010, FP-2010 is not the same as cFP-2010, etc), with identical modules connected.
Configure A, B, C...n's IP address. These will be used later.
Take system B, C...n offline, so that no more changes are made to them at this time.
Configure A with the desired settings that you would like to copy to the other systems.
Make sure that Download item names on Save under Tools>>FieldPoint is checked.
SAVE the .iak file. This will only save the information for system A. This will also download the item names to system A.
Take system A offline so that it can be copied (keep B, C...n offline as well).
Delete A, B, C...n from the Remote System's list and refresh the Remote System tree (press F5). This deletes them from MAX, and from the iak file if you saved it. Do not save the iak file.
Exit and relaunch MAX. Expand remote systems. Only system A should appear with a yellow warning sign (it is loaded from the iak file). Make sure the Model in the network settings page is FieldPoint RT to make sure that it is a FieldPoint (e.g. not PXI) configuration.
Right-click on system A and select Change IP Offline.
Enter the IP address for system B and press OK. The operation will be successful as long as you don't have system B online.
Put system B online.
Press F5 to refresh the Remote Systems tree. System B's icon will now change to the blue FP icon.
Right-click on the Bank item under system B and select Apply configuration to bank. This step will copy the hardware settings to all the I/O modules for bank B.
Take all systems offline and repeat Steps 8 to 14 for all other banks (C...n).
Once done with configuring all the systems, put ALL systems online and do the following steps:
Start with a new iak file
Refresh remote systems (press F5). All configured systems will show up with gray icon.
Do Find Devices on Each system
Save the .iak file (Note: this save will download the Item Names to the respective systems).
To do the same operation in FieldPoint Explorer:
Configure A, B, C...n's IP address. Keep ALL systems online.
Configure A with the desired settings
Save the .iak file (this should also download the item names to system A)
Right-click on commRes in FP Explorer and select Copy (enter the number of copies to be made). This step will add that many items in the FP Explorer tree.
Right click on one of the newly created commRes items in the tree and select Edit this comm Res
Enter B's IP address and click OK.
For Each network and I/O module under B
Right click and select Edit this Device
Select Channel Configuration and then select OK in the Channel Configuration box
Select OK in the device config box
If you want, rename the default commRes to a new name.
Repeat step 5-8 for all other banks
Save the .iak file (Note this will also download items names)
Regards,
Bill B
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
